AuthorTopic: strigi search with catfish (Read 5430 times)

I have catfish installed in thunar. If I go to a directory and click on search, catfish pops up and I can search for files with find, locate and slocate. However I can't search with strigi, though it was installed from the VL repository. I think strigi might let me search for a string within a document.

When I type in "strigiclient" from the terminal the strigiclient daemon pops up but nothing seems to work and terminal shows the following error:

On starting catfish 3.2 from the terminal by typing "catfish," it seems to load fine, but terminal says:

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(catfish.pyc:29508): libglade-WARNING **: Error loading image: Failed to open file '/usr/share/catfish/catfish.svg': No such file or directory

(catfish.pyc:29508): libglade-WARNING **: could not convert string to type `GdkPixbuf' for property `icon'

My first post shows the error when typing "strigiclient" from terminal. However, the strigi daemon pops up. If I click on "edit filters" it brings up a screen. If I type *.html in that screen, it takes it but nothing happens (no activity in terminal). Same with add a directory, i.e. it brings up a thunar-like screen and allows me to add a directory, but nothing happens and no activity in terminal window. If I client on "stop daemon" I get "Unknown backend type: clucene" in the terminal window. However, clucene 2.3.3.4 and clucene core 0.9.21b are loaded from the repositories.

Thanks hata_ph. I appreciate it. It still does not work, however. Acts about the same as before. I tried it several ways. Still apparently does not see clucene. The error message produced on running strigiclient may be a little different.

Thanks again for the effort. There might be something else (other than catfish/strigi) in linux that could do what Google Desktop did, being to constantly index the harddrive (in the background), facilitating rapid search for words within a document. I will keep my eye out. Too bad Google abandoned its Desktop search engine. I guess Google thought Desktop might encourage us to keep using our harddrives - something which goes against Google's cloud-based business model. Win some. Lose some.